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Pyre / Perumal Murugan ; translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.
- Title
- Pyre / Perumal Murugan ; translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.
- Author
- Perumāḷmurukan̲
- Publication
- Gurgaon : Penguin Books, 2016.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Aniruddhan Vasudevan
- Description
- xii, 200 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Saroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan's village, harbouring the dangerous secret that their marriage is an intercaste one, likely to anger the villagers should they learn of it. Kumaresan is confident that all will be well. He naively believes that after the initial round of curious questions, the inquiries will die down and the couple will be left alone. But nothing is further from the truth. The villagers strongly suspect that Saroja must belong to a different caste. It is only a matter of time before their suspicions harden into certainty and, outraged, they set about exacting their revenge. With spare, powerful prose, Murugan masterfully conjures a terrifying vision of intolerance in this devastating tale of innocent young love pitted against chilling savagery.
- Uniform Title
- Pūkkuḻi. English
- Alternative Title
- Pūkkuḻi.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- Novel.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780670087754
- 0670087750
- LCCN
- ^^2016317857
- OCLC
- 945718493
- SCSB-12179194
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library